Word: hokeyness
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...short films that predate Chaplin's first full-length comedies. A Dog's Life is the funniest, and most poignant; Shoulder Arms isn't very funny at all; The Preacher comes after so much continuous Chaplin that it's hard to judge. The three films are connected by some hokey talk about Hollywood, and all three have overdone orchestral scores written by Chaplin, instead of his original piano scores...
...raise his eyebrows at a couple embracing in his laboratory. Skinner is supposed to be reclusive, but somehow Brown convinced him to appear. Brown spent a great deal of energy making this film full of fun scenes like these--and they are perfect selling points in a hokey sort of Harvard...
Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...
...belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
First they lost their cheerleaders, then their paychecks, and finally the New York Golden Blades lost their home and name. The cheerleaders, called the Golden Belles, were hooted off the ice for their hokey pregame shows. The paychecks stopped when the last-place team went broke and only resumed when the World Hockey Association stepped in to keep the team skating. Then the Blades were evicted from Madison Square Garden and forced to relocate in Cherry Hill, N.J., a suburb of Camden, as the Jersey Knights...